ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos asked Ann Coulter to further discuss what he called a controversial comment the conservative pundit made in her new book: that "various groups [including] gay rights groups, those defending immigrants, and feminists have commandeered the black civil rights experience."

Coulter said that she thought that "civil rights are for blacks" because the U.S. has a "legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws."

She added, "We don't owe the homeless. We don't owe feminists. We don't owe women who are desirous of having abortions, or gays who want to get married to one another." She said that "much of the left...dropped the blacks after five minutes" to argue for "civil rights" for other groups of people.

Stephanopoulos interrupted Coulter asking, "Immigrant rights are not civil rights?" Coulter confirmed that she only thinks "civil rights are for blacks."

She argued, "What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven 't even been in this country."

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Coulter told a gathering of gay conservatives, marriage "is not a civil right -- you're not black."

Coulter made an analogy between the Occupy Wall Street movement and Nazis in October. She said that some of the phrases used by protesters could have been said
"before the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and with only slight modification when the Nazis were coming to power..."

In May, Coulter appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show to argue that "radiation is good for you." She was responding to concerns about radiation in Japan post-earthquake, and told a skeptical O'Reilly that levels of radiation higher than the cut-offs set by the government could actually reduce the risk of cancer.

In 2007, Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot."

Earlier this year, Coulter asked someone to put out an ad looking for President Obama's cocaine dealer.

Coulter let loose on the late Princess Diana of all people, calling her an "anorexic, bulimic narcissist." Prior to that, she had called Princess Diana a "nitwit hussy."

Coulter once called Cenk Uygur, then on MSNBC, "retarded."

In May, Ann Coulter told the crowd at an annual CPAC conference that "there should be more jailed journalists."

Post 9/11, Coulter had this to say about Muslims: ''We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.''

In a 2002 interview with The New York Observer, Coulter said she wished that the Oklahoma City bomber had targeted the New York Times. She said, "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." Later, she said, "I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'"